LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE BORD GAIS IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2016 From the writer of one of the most memorable debuts of recent years An eighteen-year-old Irish girl arrives in London to study drama & falls violently in love with an older actor This older man has a disturbing past that the young girl is unprepared for The young girl has a troubling past of her own This is her story & their story The Lesser Bohemians is about sexual passion It is about innocence & the loss of it At once epic & exquisitely intimate it is a celebration of the dark & the light in love